Peace, Love and Storytelling

"I am mine before I am anyone else's." -Nayyirah Waheed EVERYONE wants to feel loved. Regardless of whether or not you want to admit it we're all soft for affection. We all need this feeling of warmth and comfort you only get with love. Now most people go out and look for it and that's just the wrong way to go about it. You'll only find love that is true and real to you through loving yourself first. Love ya self! This post was inspired by many things but rappers like Kendrick really put me in the mindset to write this tonight. Shoutout to the rappers who practice and teach self-love everyday. <3 So far on my blog I've talked about a lot of little things that you can do to improve the quality of your life and make the best of this time we have here on Earth , but this topic is NOT  little. This is the most important message I want to send to all of my readers because this by far was the biggest thing I had to do in order to grow closer to m...

So this topic was one I've wanted to write about since I started this blog but haven't had the guts to write it out knowing I would exploit the live of someone without them knowing first. I feel like she won't mind if she actually read it and saw I was using her as an example for something positive that has help me grow spiritually and has consequently made me a better person.  "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." -Mahatma Gandhi This post will be about my mother. For those of you who don't know who she is specifically, sorry I'm going to leave her name out of this because I don't feel as though that is important. So here's the basic summary of the life of my mother through the lens of her eldest daughter. My mom got pregnant at the age of sixteen and had me at the age of seventeen while she was still in high school. Though I was too young to remember how her life was when she was a young mother ...

When I actually think about the amount of times I've had a breakdown when looking through social media, I realize how sensitive I am to the world around me. Literally ANYTHING can make me cry. I remember scrolling through "cute animals," on Pinterest one day and seeing the most majestic little pug and crying because of how cute it was and I don't even like pugs! The fact that as a millennial the internet has the ability to allow me to feel such emotion for an unknown reason is freaking incredible. Feelings can be manipulated so easily and i think it's really funny but seriously has taught me a thing or two about myself. And I think this is an absolutely wonderful tool for a generation of people who would rather not talk about their feelings anyways. Now I think I can speak for everyone when I say Facebook is the best social media platform to use if you enjoy looking into the lives of people you don't really make an effort to really see because we'r...

"Once you replace your negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results." -Willie Nelson Have you ever felt like your life was on repeat? The same boring shit keeps happening and it just feels like you aren't really progressing? Well if you've ever stopped for even a second and thought about this, thats the first step in fixing the problem.. Acknowledging you have a one. Now I'm about to get real dark for a minute and tell you about my depression and what I did when I realized I had a problem. So back when I first started attending UF is when I noticed something was not right. I was so focused on getting everything I needed to get done for school that I didn't take a moment to think about how I was actually feeling about my life. I started noticing something was wrong with myself when crying every night would become a routine for me instead of sleeping. I'm talking like I wasn't sleeping for like 48 hours at ...

Vulnerability: the quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally. "Being vulnerable is a risk we have to take to experience connection." - Brené Brown Just want to say that a lot of the things that inspired me to be a good person are on the internet somewhere or in a book. Finding things that teach me something about people is like a educational porn to me. It turn my awareness on. Stay woke! I felt like this topic was important to cover early on because this is the biggest thing I struggle with and I got a few comments from people telling me they understand this feeling of not wanting to be vulnerable. I have always had a problem with letting my guard down and here I am posting my most personal issues to strangers on the internet. Pretty ironic. So this lady talks about the difference between people who feel love and belonging and those who feel disconnected to the world and the only differ...

A question I'm still asking myself sometimes ngl. So I'm going to start this post off with a quote I received from a friend this morning: "What is most personal is most universal."  - C.R. Rogers Quote is super relevant because thats what I'm about to do.. get personal. So I think it's safe to say that if you guys are reading this you probably have an idea of who I am being that I linked this to all my social media accounts. But allow me to re-introduce myself without the likable insta posts and quotable twitter lines. I am Jasmine. Or as most of my friends call me Jaz. I was born at Health Park Medical Center in Fort Myers, Florida to teenage parents. My mom had me at seventeen and my parents had to become parents while they were young and not really ready. They struggled and for a long time we lived in a little trailer down A road in a little town called Labelle. Right before I turned two they blessed me with a sister who has been my rock through m...

So I hear it's good when you're starting something like this to make sure you connect your audience to your life in every way possible. Here are links to all of my social media accounts so that you can follow my life in whatever way is suitable to you. This will also be the best way to reach out to me personally so I will include my email if anyone feels the need to have that for whatever reason. They are listed in order of the ones I use most. Email: jleighjimenez@gmail.com Snapchat: @jasmine6611 Instagram:  @_jsmnjmnz Twitter:  @jsmnjmnz Facebook: Jasmine Jimenez Tumblr: jsmnjmnz Pinterest: Jasmine Jimenez

Alright guys so I know what you guys are probably thinking.. "What the heck is Jas doing? She's blogging now?!" And yes, I am. Give me a minute to explain. I watched this really heart felt video the other day on Facebook somewhere about this guy name Jason Momoa (Here's the link if you haven't seen it already Inspirational video ) and tbh I didn't know who the heck he was before clicking on the video. I was simply drawn into the video because it was posted by the  Designspiration  FB page and I LOVE watching inspirational videos via social media. But that's pretty normal right. I think it's safe to assume thats where most people my age discover cool people, content or inspiration in a world run by the internet and social media platforms. Anyways... back to the video. The video is about Jason Momoa who tells his story of growing up and becoming an actor, director but most importantly a father. In the video he talks about how important his job as a fat...